Name of Piece: Piloti Client: TheVeryMany Commission: City of Bellevue Category: Public Art Location: Bellevue, WA Date: April 2023 Piloti is a new permanent art installation located at Bellevue Downtown Park. This innovative artwork features fluted columns rising up to form a canopy 23 feet high with perforated light coming through. The art piece is…
Gizmo is a RESIDENTIAL MERIT WINNER! Dear Mark, Congratulations on your CODAawards Merit Win! And what a fabulous entry it is! There was tough competition this year and you should be proud of this accomplishment. We were thrilled to receive 411 entries for the 2023 CODAawards from 23 countries around the world. Our jurors were…
Client: The City of Milpitas Category: Exhibits Location: Milpitas, CA Date: Fall 2022 Gizmo worked on interpretive graphics, accessioned objects, electronic media, custom elements, woodwork, minor restoration work, and 3D tactile elements. Includes all installation, project management, shop drawings and site visits. We worked with designers from The Sibbett Group to recreate the feel of the building from when…
“Piloti” by Marc Fornes is being fabricated and installed by Gizmo Art Production in Downtown Bellevue, Washington. Come check it out in April of 2023. This one of a kind piece by Marc Fornes features fluted columns rising up to form a canopy 23 feet high with perforated light coming through and was installed later…
Using tiles that were hand made by Magnolia editions, Gizmo fabricated and installed this mural by artist Clare Rojas in the Chinatown station at the new SF subway station. Client: San Francisco Arts Commission Category: Public Art Location San Francisco, CA Date: 2022 A Sense of Community, “features a variety of unique Silk Road textiles…
Client: Blessing Hancock Commission: City of Santa Rosa Public Art Program Category: Public Art Location: Santa Rosa, CA Date: December 2022 “Unum” is a large-scale public sculpture that now sits in The Old Courthouse Square in Santa Rosa, California. It is composed of stainless steel and LED lighting. The lattice consists of words from 32 different…
Artists: Jacqueline Metz , Nancy Chew Location: Beaverton, OR Date: 2022 “Puff” is an interactive, suspended, magical motion sculpture made from rearview mirrors outstretched from a stainless steel sphere. “Puff” hangs in the beautiful light-filled lobby of the Patricia Reser Center for the Arts and greets visitors by turning upon their movements using built-in motion sensors.…
Gizmo is so proud to have been involved in 2 of the 7 projects mentioned here. San Francisco parks do rock, and we got to provide the fence and gate system for Guy Place, as well as the Driftwood benches for the Presidio Tunnel Tops. Visit all of these new great places!
Gizmo worked with artists Taraneh Hemami to fabricate and install the tessellated stainless sculpture. Client: Taraneh Hemami and Carmel Partners Category: Public Art Location: Oakland, CA Date: September 2021 A sculptural tree with tessellated canopies made of mirrored steel and iridescent glass is a new icon at the corner of 13th and Franklin Street in downtown…
“Unum” is another really cool project brought about by the artist Blessing Hancock, whom we have had the pleasure of working with extensively in the past and presently on several other similar projects. A common Blessing Hancock motif that Unum has is the backlit metal text cutout face, typically composed of words, letters and sometimes…
